Video Quality Report — Vcr Direct Capture Comparisons

14 analog video captures — normalized to common brightness & saturation — evaluated on 9 no-reference quality metrics.

Metric Guide

Sharpness higher
Laplacian variance — blur vs. sharpness
Edge Strength higher
Sobel gradient — edge definition
Blocking ~1.0
8x8 DCT boundary ratio
Detail higher
Local variance — micro-detail
Texture Q higher
Structure/noise ratio — detail quality
Ringing lower
Edge overshoot / haloing — retained despite high sharpness correlation; reflects a distinct analog artifact (VCR sharpness circuits, aperture correction) that varies independently across hardware
Temporal lower
Frame-to-frame diff — flicker
Colorfulness higher
Hasler-Süsstrunk — color vibrancy
Naturalness higher
MSCN kurtosis — natural signal statistics

Overall Composite Ranking

Average rank across all 9 metrics (1 = best per metric). Lower average rank = better overall quality.

9-Metric Radar Comparison

All metrics on 0–100 quality scale (higher = better on all axes). Click legend to toggle. Top 5 shown by default.

Detailed Heatmap — All Metrics

ClipAvg Rank SharpEdgeBlockDetailTexQRingTempColorNatur

Ranked by average rank across all metrics (lower = better). Cell color: green = good, red = poor. Raw metric values shown. Click any column header to sort.

Individual Metric Rankings

Visual Metric Comparisons

For each metric, a strong example frame from the best-scoring clip (near its 90th percentile) is shown. All clips are shown at the same frame number for direct comparison. Click any image to enlarge; use the AB icon to A/B compare two images with a slider.

Sharpness (higher = better) — Frame 163 (p90 in ds555tbc0_dnrOff)

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#1 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc0_3dY
Sharpness: 0.009147
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#2 ds555tbc1_dnrOn
Sharpness: 0.005883
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#3 ds555tbc0_dnrOff
Sharpness: 0.005843
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#4 ds555tbc1_dnrOff
Sharpness: 0.005751
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#5 jvctbc1_pcAuto_r3On
Sharpness: 0.004488
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#6 mitsutbc1
Sharpness: 0.004473
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#7 ag1980tbc0
Sharpness: 0.004427
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#8 mitsutbc0
Sharpness: 0.004329
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#9 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc1_3dY
Sharpness: 0.004309
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#10 jvctbc1_pcEdit_r3Off
Sharpness: 0.004262
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#11 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_dv
Sharpness: 0.003918
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#12 jvctbc0_pcEdit_r3Off
Sharpness: 0.003360
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#13 ag1980tbc1
Sharpness: 0.003002
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#14 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_snellhd
Sharpness: 0.002167

Edge Strength (higher = better) — Frame 177 (p90 in ds555tbc0_dnrOff)

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#1 ds555tbc0_dnrOff
Edge Strength: 0.261564
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#2 ds555tbc1_dnrOff
Edge Strength: 0.261527
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#3 ds555tbc1_dnrOn
Edge Strength: 0.252118
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#4 mitsutbc1
Edge Strength: 0.246564
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#5 mitsutbc0
Edge Strength: 0.244127
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#6 jvctbc1_pcEdit_r3Off
Edge Strength: 0.242446
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#7 ag1980tbc0
Edge Strength: 0.241471
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#8 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_dv
Edge Strength: 0.238914
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#9 ag1980tbc1
Edge Strength: 0.237640
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#10 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc1_3dY
Edge Strength: 0.236851
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#11 jvctbc1_pcAuto_r3On
Edge Strength: 0.230758
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#12 jvctbc0_pcEdit_r3Off
Edge Strength: 0.210332
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#13 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_snellhd
Edge Strength: 0.207001
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#14 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc0_3dY
Edge Strength: 0.177160

Blocking (closer to 1.0 = better) — Frame 223 (p90 in ag1980tbc0)

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#1 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_snellhd
Blocking: 1.065058
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#2 jvctbc1_pcEdit_r3Off
Blocking: 1.075128
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#3 ag1980tbc1
Blocking: 1.078689
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#4 ds555tbc0_dnrOff
Blocking: 1.091971
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#5 jvctbc1_pcAuto_r3On
Blocking: 1.099044
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#6 ag1980tbc0
Blocking: 1.102936
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#7 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc1_3dY
Blocking: 1.104996
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#8 jvctbc0_pcEdit_r3Off
Blocking: 1.106340
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#9 mitsutbc1
Blocking: 1.106828
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#10 mitsutbc0
Blocking: 1.113942
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#11 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_dv
Blocking: 1.125179
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#12 ds555tbc1_dnrOff
Blocking: 1.144898
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#13 ds555tbc1_dnrOn
Blocking: 1.201654
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#14 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc0_3dY
Blocking: 0.681842

Detail (higher = better) — Frame 198 (p90 in ds555tbc1_dnrOff)

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#1 mitsutbc1
Detail: 0.003459
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#2 ds555tbc0_dnrOff
Detail: 0.003405
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#3 mitsutbc0
Detail: 0.003394
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#4 ds555tbc1_dnrOff
Detail: 0.003327
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#5 ds555tbc1_dnrOn
Detail: 0.003197
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#6 jvctbc1_pcEdit_r3Off
Detail: 0.003193
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#7 ag1980tbc1
Detail: 0.003133
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#8 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_dv
Detail: 0.003128
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#9 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc1_3dY
Detail: 0.003072
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#10 ag1980tbc0
Detail: 0.002989
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#11 jvctbc1_pcAuto_r3On
Detail: 0.002897
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#12 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_snellhd
Detail: 0.002851
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#13 jvctbc0_pcEdit_r3Off
Detail: 0.002390
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#14 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc0_3dY
Detail: 0.001105

Texture Q (higher = better) — Frame 263 (p90 in jvctbc0_pcEdit_r3Off)

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#1 jvctbc0_pcEdit_r3Off
Texture Q: 0.909414
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#2 jvctbc1_pcAuto_r3On
Texture Q: 0.905131
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#3 ag1980tbc1
Texture Q: 0.898537
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#4 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_snellhd
Texture Q: 0.892120
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#5 ds555tbc1_dnrOn
Texture Q: 0.883876
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#6 mitsutbc1
Texture Q: 0.881430
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#7 ag1980tbc0
Texture Q: 0.878564
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#8 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc0_3dY
Texture Q: 0.873951
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#9 mitsutbc0
Texture Q: 0.872083
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#10 jvctbc1_pcEdit_r3Off
Texture Q: 0.869183
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#11 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_dv
Texture Q: 0.868056
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#12 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc1_3dY
Texture Q: 0.859234
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#13 ds555tbc1_dnrOff
Texture Q: 0.837165
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#14 ds555tbc0_dnrOff
Texture Q: 0.832308

Ringing (lower = better) — Frame 182 (p90 in jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_snellhd)

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#1 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_snellhd
Ringing: 0.049275
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#2 ag1980tbc1
Ringing: 0.057872
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#3 jvctbc0_pcEdit_r3Off
Ringing: 0.062036
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#4 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc0_3dY
Ringing: 0.063764
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#5 jvctbc1_pcEdit_r3Off
Ringing: 0.063985
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#6 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_dv
Ringing: 0.064460
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#7 mitsutbc0
Ringing: 0.065617
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#8 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc1_3dY
Ringing: 0.066161
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#9 mitsutbc1
Ringing: 0.066795
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#10 ag1980tbc0
Ringing: 0.069012
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#11 jvctbc1_pcAuto_r3On
Ringing: 0.069330
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#12 ds555tbc1_dnrOff
Ringing: 0.074390
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#13 ds555tbc0_dnrOff
Ringing: 0.074835
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#14 ds555tbc1_dnrOn
Ringing: 0.075374

Temporal (lower = better) — Frame 137 (p90 in jvctbc0_pcEdit_r3Off)

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#1 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc0_3dY
Temporal: 0.000254
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#2 jvctbc1_pcEdit_r3Off
Temporal: 0.063581
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#3 jvctbc0_pcEdit_r3Off
Temporal: 0.064504
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#4 jvctbc1_pcAuto_r3On
Temporal: 0.069469
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#5 ds555tbc1_dnrOn
Temporal: 0.069748
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#6 ag1980tbc0
Temporal: 0.069765
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#7 ag1980tbc1
Temporal: 0.070500
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#8 mitsutbc1
Temporal: 0.070780
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#9 mitsutbc0
Temporal: 0.071312
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#10 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_snellhd
Temporal: 0.073544
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#11 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc1_3dY
Temporal: 0.073573
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#12 ds555tbc0_dnrOff
Temporal: 0.074131
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#13 ds555tbc1_dnrOff
Temporal: 0.074420
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#14 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_dv
Temporal: 0.074657

Colorfulness (higher = better) — Frame 51 (p90 in jvctbc0_pcEdit_r3Off)

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#1 jvctbc0_pcEdit_r3Off
Colorfulness: 119.238821
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#2 ag1980tbc1
Colorfulness: 83.357308
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#3 ag1980tbc0
Colorfulness: 82.871965
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#4 jvctbc1_pcAuto_r3On
Colorfulness: 82.671683
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#5 mitsutbc0
Colorfulness: 82.173478
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#6 mitsutbc1
Colorfulness: 82.122644
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#7 jvctbc1_pcEdit_r3Off
Colorfulness: 81.964693
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#8 ds555tbc0_dnrOff
Colorfulness: 81.138399
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#9 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_snellhd
Colorfulness: 80.920254
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#10 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_dv
Colorfulness: 80.292947
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#11 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc1_3dY
Colorfulness: 79.680772
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#12 ds555tbc1_dnrOff
Colorfulness: 76.191110
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#13 ds555tbc1_dnrOn
Colorfulness: 76.172616
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#14 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc0_3dY
Colorfulness: 53.666551

Naturalness (higher = better) — Frame 370 (p90 in ag1980tbc1)

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#1 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc0_3dY
Naturalness: 0.215029
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#2 ag1980tbc1
Naturalness: 0.139199
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#3 mitsutbc1
Naturalness: -0.174326
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#4 jvctbc1_pcAuto_r3On
Naturalness: -0.194940
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#5 jvctbc0_pcEdit_r3Off
Naturalness: -0.203073
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#6 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_snellhd
Naturalness: -0.210055
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#7 mitsutbc0
Naturalness: -0.272865
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#8 ag1980tbc0
Naturalness: -0.273464
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#9 jvctbc1_pcEdit_r3Off
Naturalness: -0.357547
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#10 ds555tbc1_dnrOn
Naturalness: -0.365837
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#11 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_dv
Naturalness: -0.390357
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#12 jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc1_3dY
Naturalness: -0.391348
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#13 ds555tbc1_dnrOff
Naturalness: -0.446977
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#14 ds555tbc0_dnrOff
Naturalness: -0.458178

Appendix: Sample Frames

Evenly-spaced frames from each clip for visual reference and decode verification. Click any image to enlarge.

ag1980tbc0

Frame 99
Frame 198
Frame 297
Frame 396
Frame 495

ag1980tbc1

Frame 99
Frame 198
Frame 297
Frame 396
Frame 495

ds555tbc0_dnrOff

Frame 99
Frame 198
Frame 297
Frame 396
Frame 495

ds555tbc1_dnrOff

Frame 99
Frame 198
Frame 297
Frame 396
Frame 495

ds555tbc1_dnrOn

Frame 99
Frame 198
Frame 297
Frame 396
Frame 495

jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_dv

Frame 99
Frame 198
Frame 297
Frame 396
Frame 495

jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc0_3dY

Frame 98
Frame 197
Frame 296
Frame 394
Frame 493

jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_leitchtbc1_3dY

Frame 99
Frame 198
Frame 297
Frame 396
Frame 495

jvctb0_pcEdit_r3Off_snellhd

Frame 99
Frame 198
Frame 297
Frame 396
Frame 495

jvctbc0_pcEdit_r3Off

Frame 99
Frame 198
Frame 297
Frame 396
Frame 495

jvctbc1_pcAuto_r3On

Frame 99
Frame 198
Frame 297
Frame 396
Frame 495

jvctbc1_pcEdit_r3Off

Frame 98
Frame 197
Frame 296
Frame 394
Frame 493

mitsutbc0

Frame 99
Frame 198
Frame 297
Frame 396
Frame 495

mitsutbc1

Frame 99
Frame 198
Frame 297
Frame 396
Frame 495
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